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IBM - International Business Machine

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Corporation

The Resume

    (June 15, 1911- )
    Originally the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation
    Headquartered in Armonk, New York
    Largest computer hardware company in the world
    Employed 330,000 (2004)
    Owns over 25,000 patents
    Revenue is $96.2 billion

Why IBM - International Business Machine might be annoying:

    They had a strict dress code consisting of a blue suit, a white shirt and a dark tie.
    Their company in Germany was taken over and provided the Nazi regime with punch card machines.
    These machines were used during the Holocaust.
    They used their military contracts to gain access to cutting-edge research.
    They have been accused of anti-trust violations.
    They lost $4.97 billion in one year (1992).
    They sold off their PC wing to Lenovo, which is partially owned by China P.R. (2004).
    They resists labor union organizing.

Why IBM - International Business Machine might not be annoying:

    They made M1 Carbine rifles for the soldiers during World War II.
    They were the first corporation to support the United Negro College Fund.
    They have won five Novel Prizes.
    They hired African Americans and women before it became fashionable and good for business.
    They made Deep Blue, a computer capable of evaluating 100,000,000 chess positions per second.
    They invented the hard disk drive, the cursor, Dynamic RAM, the relational database, the Control-Alt-Delete keystroke and the floppy disk.

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Year In Review:

    For 2024, as of last weekly ranking, Out of 7 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
    In 2023, Out of 23 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 6 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 13 Votes: 46.15% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 33 Votes: 12.12% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 12 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 10 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 49 Votes: 67.35% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 12 Votes: 58.33% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 23 Votes: 52.17% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 19 Votes: 52.63% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 18 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 17 Votes: 35.29% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 19 Votes: 57.89% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 30 Votes: 63.33% Annoying
    In 2008, Out of 62 Votes: 69.35% Annoying
    In 2007, Out of 65 Votes: 58.46% Annoying
    In 2006, Out of 135 Votes: 51.11% Annoying
    In 2005, Out of 160 Votes: 56.88% Annoying